{"id":1386,"date":"2009-11-07T06:39:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanheartbreak.com\/rnrgeekwp\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2009-11-07T06:40:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T13:40:56","slug":"rock-and-roll-geek-show-377-requiem-for-aerosmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanheartbreak.com\/rnrgeekwp\/rock-and-roll-geek-show-377-requiem-for-aerosmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll Geek Show 377 &#8211; Requiem for Aerosmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this show I mourn the news about Steven Tyler supposedly quitting Aerosmith, something I predicted would happen during the recent tour. And to mourn this, I play some of my favorite Aerosmith tunes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=therockandr0c-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B0000029AL&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=therockandr0c-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B0000029AN&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=therockandr0c-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B0000029AP&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=therockandr0c-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B0000029AS&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/06\/joe-perry-steven-tyler-has-quit-aerosmith\/\">The Las Vegas Sun<\/a>:<br \/>\nAerosmith guitarist Joe Perry said today that singer Steven Tyler quit the band following a recent concert in Abu Dhabi.<br \/>\nBassist Tom Hamilton told the Boston Herald\u2019s Inside Track that there is dissension among the \u201cBad Boys From Boston,\u201d but that he hopes things can be worked out. He dismissed a report that guitarist Brad Whitford discussed the possiblity of Aerosmith finding a new frontman.<br \/>\nHowever, Perry told the Las Vegas Sun today that he believes Tyler is history.<br \/>\n\u201cSteven quit as far as I can tell,\u201d Perry said from his Boston home. \u201cI don\u2019t know anymore than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don\u2019t know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<br \/>\nPart of the problem, he says, is that Tyler doesn\u2019t return his phone calls.<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s notorious for that,\u201d Perry said. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned to live with. I try to overlook it. I like to pick my battles. Frankly, the last few months I\u2019ve been wanting not to rock the boat. I don\u2019t want him canceling any more gigs. We really wanted to do these last four. We just kind of didn\u2019t want to call him out or anything and get him anymore pissed off, for whatever reason. So we just let things lie. So we did the gigs and, like I said, I got off the plane and saw this online. That\u2019s how I know about it.\u201d<br \/>\nPerry will perform his Joe Perry Project Nov. 28 at the Las Vegas House of Blues, performing from his latest release \u201cHave Guitar, Will Travel.\u201d<br \/>\nMost of Aerosmith\u2019s recent world tour was canceled in August after Tyler fell from the stage at a Sturgis, S.D., concert and broke his shoulder. The band members were unhappy with Tyler over the incident. However, Aerosmith salvaged the final leg of the tour, including two shows in Hawaii and one Sunday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix before more than 50,000 fans.<br \/>\nAfter the Middle Eastern concert the band parted ways with Perry going to London to attend the Classic Rock &amp; Roll of Honour awards ceremony on Monday. Perry said he arrived home in Boston on Wednesday and read on the Internet that Tyler planned to leave the band.<br \/>\n\u201cHe has had no contact with me or the other band members,\u201d Perry said.<br \/>\nHe says he hopes to keep Aerosmith together, with or without Tyler, but he was so stunned by recent developments he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen.<br \/>\n\u201cRight now I\u2019m adjusting to how we\u2019re going to go on,\u201d Perry says. \u201cAerosmith is such a powerful band, I mean it\u2019s like a steam locomotive. You just can\u2019t disregard 40 years of four guys who play together as well as they do. We\u2019re just trying to \u2013 at least I am \u2013 trying to figure out what direction the band should take.<br \/>\n\u201cAs far as replacing Steve, it\u2019s not just about that, it\u2019s also four guys that play extremely well together, and I\u2019m not going to see that go to waste. I really don\u2019t know what path it\u2019s going to take at this point, but we\u2019ll probably find somebody else that will sing in those spots where we need a singer and then we\u2019ll be able to move the Aerosmith up a notch, move the vibe up a notch.\u201d<br \/>\nPerry believes Tyler has been planning on leaving for a while.<br \/>\n\u201cObviously he hasn\u2019t been giving 100 percent to this thing for a long time,\u201d Perry said. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously had this planned for a long time. To disregard his brothers to the point where we have to find out about it on the Internet \u2013 it\u2019s like, &#8216;See you later, Bud.\u2019 I still care for him as a person, or at least the person I used to know. But things change.\u201d<br \/>\nAerosmith rose to popularity in the \u201970s with a combination of hard rock and power ballads only to be derailed by drug and alcohol abuse. After Tyler completed rehab in 1986, the band rose to prominence again. There were rumors last year that Tyler had checked back into rehab after more than 20 years of sobriety.<br \/>\nPerry himself left the band for two years in 1979. While he was away he created the solo Joe Perry Project, which has now released five albums.<br \/>\n\u201cThe circumstances were different then,\u201d Perry said. \u201cWe\u2019d been touring pretty much nonstop for eight years and the band was just pretty much burned out on each other. We needed a break. We needed to take a vacation but blood was running so hot I just had to leave, had to get out of there. 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